Thunderwave Sword
Each slash calls lightning down on nearby enemies. Lightning buildup is +6 on Fextralife and +3 on Game8 — a clean doubling, which is the pattern that runs through the whole elemental set.
Applies to 4 August 2026 releaseUpdated
Wiki-transcribed; sources disagree on values
- Character
- Emma
- Category
- Sword
- Passive
- Tempest
- Attack
- 51 enhanced (Fextralife) / 21 base (Game8)
- Element
- Electric
- Role
- Lightning buildup
- Where to find it
- Kanto Region, Ancient Civilization Zone — southeast of the Raging River camp. Progress into Chapter 2 and defeat the elite there; Fextralife states it drops a Lightning Stone alongside the sword.
- Applies to
- 4 August 2026 release
When to use it
The first sword that applies a status rather than adding damage, and IGN's weaknesses guide is the reason to care: buildup is how this game's eight damage types actually pay off. An elite drop rather than a purchase, so it costs a fight instead of Amber.
Builds using this
No build on this site currently lists this weapon. It is documented here because a source describes it, not because a creator built around it.
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Sources for this page
- Fextralife wiki — Weapons index and per-weapon pages — Competitor claim, read 2026-08-05 across all 32 weapon pages it publishes. Evidence that Fextralife states a particular number for each weapon, not that the number is right — and its own prose gives the reason to be careful: every sword page says "the full melee attack damage of", and every sword reads 51 or 45. Our read is that these are fully-enhanced values; Fextralife never says which enhancement level any figure describes. It has no page for Shark Cutter, First Moon, Silverlight or Big Dipper.